There is more chance of using bitcoin for illegal activities because it's pseudonymous and no one can know who is sending money to whom. I had heard that people are taking more about bitcoin in dark net. Probably people will definitely use bitcoin for doing anonymous activity
yes mate i heard that too, here in my country since btc is not that popular yet those drug dealer taking the advantage of it, but suddenly they been caught by our local police because the transaction that they made has been trace using the local exchange.
Dealers using exchanges to convert or mix their coins aren't that smart as exchanges keep every IP and transaction log for ever.
All this information can be used against you, and linked to you in case you have verified your ID in order to make use of that specific exchange.
There are plenty of ways to get your coins converted back and forth without using exchanges, but probably they weren't aware of it. Dumb people.